Samina Ahmed, South Asia director for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, said consensus on a caretaker government was an important issue.
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Meanwhile, China hopes the G-20 meeting will reach a consensus on how to deal with the global crisis.
Here the financial crisis has blown apart the fragile consensus between purists and Keynesians that monetary policy was the best way to smooth the business cycle.
He seemed to be saying that although he and Bair may have disagreed about how to handle the current crisis, there was much more consensus about how to deal with a future one.
There is now an international consensus on the measures needed to halt the immediate crisis: Massive bond buying by the European Central Bank, the direct recapitalization of banks by bailout funds and the creation of common euro-zone bonds.
Merrill's board, which met over the weekend to discuss the crisis, was said to be nearing a consensus that Mr O'Neal's position was no longer tenable.
Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis -- financial crisis since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps.
The announcement comes amid growing consensus in Washington that the federal response to the credit crisis has fallen short of a solution that would restore confidence and stability in the financial markets.
He stressed no single party could resolve the current crisis alone and he was seeking a "political consensus" to ensure a "fair and transparent" system of pay and expenses.
Crisis or no, Germany still clings to that consensus and its largest union, IG Metall, was unrestrained in its barracking and haranguing of the chancellor at a rally recently.
With its consensus metric back to its usual low variability, another surprise crisis could scatter its value scores and potentially impact its ROE, especially since it enjoys such a high reputation premium.
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The emerging consensus among academic economists seems to be that while the Thai crisis was essentially the result of problems with fundamentals, the other countries suffered largely because of contagion effects and the resulting investor panic.
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Roubini, best known for presciently anticipating the crisis of 2007 and 2008, predicts slightly slower than consensus growth in the coming year foreseeing a growth rate of 2.7% rather than the consensus 3.2%.
Should the euro crisis somehow see a swift resolution, the optimists who defied consensus could be the ones counting their billions.
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It is becoming clear that not only do many scientists dispute the asserted global warming crisis, but these skeptical scientists may indeed form a scientific consensus.
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Pentagon officials have said repeatedly the U.S. will seek an international consensus to respond to Iraq's defiance, and that military action is unlikely while diplomatic efforts to defuse the crisis continue.
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